Daniel P.W. Ellis Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia ...

Other publications:
L. Kennedy and D. Ellis (2003). “Pitch-based emphasis detection for characterization of meeting
recordings,” Proc. IEEE ASRU-03,
St. Thomas USVI.
M. Athineos and D. Ellis (2003). “Sound Texture Modelling with Linear Prediction in both
Time and Frequency Domains,” Proc. ICASSP-03,
Hong Kong.
D. Ellis, B. Whitman, A. Berenzweig, S. Lawrence (2002). “The Quest for Ground Truth in
Musical Artist Similarity”, Proc. Int. Conf. on Music IR ISMIR-02,
Paris, October 2002.
D. Ellis and M.J. Reyes-Gomez (2001). “Investigations into Tandem Acoustic Modeling for
the Aurora Task,” Proc. Eurospeech-01,
Denmark.
D. Ellis (2001). “Detecting Alarm Sounds” Proc. CRAC workshop, Eurospeech 2001,
Denmark.
Synergistic activities:
Since 1993, administrator of the “AUDITORY” list, an email discussion list for researchers in
auditory organization (currently 872 participants in over 30 countries).
Co-organizer of NSF Workshop on Speech Separation, Montreal, October 2003.
Chair of Workshop on Consistent and Reliable Acoustic Cues CRAC-2001 at Eurospeech-
2001 in Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001. Currently editing a special issue of Speech
Communication arising from this event.
Organizing committee member for Workshops on Computational Auditory Scene Analysis in
1997 and 1999; Treasurer of 1997 IEEE Audio Workshop; Co-chair of Workshop on Consistent
and Reliable Acoustic Cues at Eurospeech 2001.
Reviewer for Speech Communications, Computer Speech and Language, IEEE Transactions
on Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and
Signal Processing, Neural and Information Processing Systems meetings etc.
NSF review panel member in 2000 and 2003.
Author of numerous public-domain software tools for sound analysis and processing, including
the “SPRACHcore” connectionist speech recognition package.
Collaborators & other affiliations:
Collaborators:
D. Abberley (Autonomy Ltd.), J. Barker (U. Sheffield), J. Bilmes (U. Washington), J.-M.
Boite (FPMs, Belgium), H. Bourlard (IDIAP, Switzerland), M. Cooke (U. Sheffield), J. Ferreiros
(UPM, Spain), E. Fosler (OSU), D. Genoud (Nuance), P. Green (U. Sheffield), H. Hermansky
(OGI), P. Jain (OGI), A. Janin (ICSI), S. Kajarekar (OGI), K. Kirchhof (U.
Washington), S. Lawrence (Google), N.Morgan (ICSI), A. Morris (IDIAP, Switzerland), M.
Ostendorf (U. Washington), T. PFau (ICSI), B. Raj (MERL), S. Renals (U. Sheffield), G.
Rigoll (Berlin U., Germany), T. Robinson (Autonomy Ltd.), E. Shriberg (SRI), S. Sharma
(Intel), R. Singh (CMU), S. Sivadas (OGI), A. Stolcke (SRI), B. Whitman (MIT), G. Williams
(Lernout & Hauspie), A. Zakhor (UC Berkeley).
Advisors at graduate school:
B. Vercoe (MIT Media Lab), L. Braida (MIT EECS), B. Gold (MIT Lincoln Laboratory).
Advisees:
Past interaction with: B. Kingsbury (IBM), N. Mirghafori (Nuance), G. Williams (Phonetic
Systems), S. Wu (Nuance); current students: M.J. Reyes-Gomez, A.L. Berenzweig, R.J.
Turetsky, M. Athineos, J. Liu, A. Sheh (all of Columbia Univ.), P. Scanlon (UCDublin, Ireland),
S. Keene (Mathworks), E. Lopez (Liverpool).